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What is the Derrick Favors Pose?

Top and middle: Favors in high school
Bottom: Favors as a rookie with the New Jersey Nets

All those years of posing for portraits has paid off. Using the knowledge gained from his time in front of the camera, Derrick Favors will be dominating for the Utah Jazz for years to come. As we watch him unleash those elbows on unsuspecting opponents, let’s remember to thank the photographers that made him pose from all those different angles. After all, without all those different angles, he wouldn’t have gained the range of motion that allows him to swing those elbows in a way that would make Karl Malone proud.